Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significant plank in the platform was a disavowal of the group's initial intention to abolish the Council. A "genuine and representative Student Council, which will speak for the students and not dictate to them" is the new object of the committee...
...Daredevil Dutchman." He was one of the first to enlist. The British government was partly responsible. He had gone to England in 1916 to consult with Sunbeam Motors, Ltd., and had discovered, to his astonishment, that his name made him an object of suspicion. The British-who had read U.S. sport pages and had discovered that he was called the "Happy Heinie," the "Daredevil Dutchman," and the "Wild Teuton"-detained him on arrival, took his shoes apart looking for messages, and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of developing secret writing. When he returned...
...London and Dr. Caprio have found that the deviations from what modern society considers normal are legion. Almost any common object or experience, they believe, can be tinged with sexual excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching either the fire itself or the extinguishers. Even shoplifters, according to the Washington psychiatrists, are often sexually abnormal, and pilfer objects with some obscure sexual significance (e.g., women who steal fountain pens, men who take gloves...
...flaw in Sherwood's plot is that there are two heroines and only one hero. Horace Miller, a young photographer with James G. Bennett's New York Herald in 1885, is the object of affection for both Maisie Dell, a lady-reporter from the Police Gazette, and Miss Liberty herself. By all the traditions of American musical drama, Maisie should be the winner. She waits faithfully in New York while Horace tracks Miss Liberty down in Paris, she talks Bennett into sending money to Horace, she sings "Homework" with tears in her eyes. But somehow the show's namesake wins...
Alexandro Feodorovich Kerensky, social revolutionist who helped overthrow the Czar in 1917, intends to reveal "the real object of the Kremlins international policy" in an address at the New Lecture Hall on April 21 at 8 p.m., John H. Mansfield '51, chairman of the United Nations Council announced yesterday...